fix: detect already-granted Screen Recording permission after restart#23
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The background permission poll relied solely on CGPreflightScreenCaptureAccess(), which on macOS 15+ can return a stale false even on a fresh launch with the permission genuinely granted. Since the only authoritative live check ran when the user pressed "Grant…", a permission granted in a prior session showed as "Not Granted" after restarting the app — a regression from 0.2.0, where the poll used the cache-bypassing SCShareableContent path (later removed because it spammed the TCC dialog every 3s). Add a non-prompting authoritative probe via CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo (reading another process's window title requires Screen Recording permission) and use it as a fallback in the poll, plus run one check immediately at launch. This never triggers the TCC dialog, so it does not reintroduce the prompt loop. https://claude.ai/code/session_01GZZ1aHLdxmAz4KRof5XAUC
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The background permission poll relied solely on CGPreflightScreenCaptureAccess(),
which on macOS 15+ can return a stale false even on a fresh launch with the
permission genuinely granted. Since the only authoritative live check ran when
the user pressed "Grant…", a permission granted in a prior session showed as
"Not Granted" after restarting the app — a regression from 0.2.0, where the poll
used the cache-bypassing SCShareableContent path (later removed because it
spammed the TCC dialog every 3s).
Add a non-prompting authoritative probe via CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo (reading
another process's window title requires Screen Recording permission) and use it
as a fallback in the poll, plus run one check immediately at launch. This never
triggers the TCC dialog, so it does not reintroduce the prompt loop.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01GZZ1aHLdxmAz4KRof5XAUC